A useful Storage Pooling feature is the ability to apply certain access restrictions at the pool level and independently of the underlying file system’s Access Control List (ACL). For instance, you can make certain files and folders read-only without having to change their underlying security attributes. You could also allow all operations on the files Full Article…

Storage Pool without RAID or Custom Storage Pool The normal Transparent RAID configuration is to protect your data from disk failure through RAID and then unify that data under an aggregated Storage Pool. For the unique scenario whereas you may wish to deploy a storage pool without RAID protection, you can do so following this Full Article…

Behavior of the new Storage Pooling engine The new Storage Pooling engine in FlexRAID defaults to a file management algorithm that favors energy efficiency. The algorithm is designed such that files are kept together within their parent folders and such that data access activates the least amount of disks possible. For most users, this is Full Article…

One of the reoccurring issues torrent users face when downloading to a FlexRAID backed storage pool is the issue of downloads sometimes timing out. The issue is more of a torrent issue in how it sees and uses the available space in a storage pool. Luckily, there is a easy way to remedy at the Full Article…